#ownership — Public Fediverse posts

#MissKitty's opinion is I can listen, but I need to understand the opinion I get from #AI was prompted by me. For me, I have full #ownership of everything including my #death. I can't control when it happens, but I accept it. I am about my own #deep #dive. Then AI does what I tell it once I know.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rryddwstyl3hsiw2yw544ynk/post/3muvy7eckln2l

#ownership : the act or state of possessing something

- French: propriété

- German: das Eigentum

- Italian: proprietà

- Portuguese: propriedade

- Spanish: propiedad

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@Ftarak: Eventually, physical media will cease to exist. No matter the brand or the company.

@KalvinCJ 🌷✦: Then, PlayStation consoles should also cease to exist in any physical form according to your logic.

#gaming #physicalmedia #playstation #techdebate #hardware #digitalfuture #ownership #indieweb #videogames #consoles #cloudgaming #reflections #preservation

@Ftarak: Eventually, physical media will cease to exist. No matter the brand or the company.

@KalvinCJ 🌷✦: Then, PlayStation consoles should also cease to exist in any physical form according to your logic.

#gaming #physicalmedia #playstation #techdebate #hardware #digitalfuture #ownership #indieweb #videogames #consoles #cloudgaming #reflections #preservation

@Ftarak: Eventually, physical media will cease to exist. No matter the brand or the company.

@KalvinCJ 🌷✦: Then, PlayStation consoles should also cease to exist in any physical form according to your logic.

#gaming #physicalmedia #playstation #techdebate #hardware #digitalfuture #ownership #indieweb #videogames #consoles #cloudgaming #reflections #preservation

@Ftarak: Eventually, physical media will cease to exist. No matter the brand or the company.

@KalvinCJ 🌷✦: Then, PlayStation consoles should also cease to exist in any physical form according to your logic.

#gaming #physicalmedia #playstation #techdebate #hardware #digitalfuture #ownership #indieweb #videogames #consoles #cloudgaming #reflections #preservation

@Ftarak: Eventually, physical media will cease to exist. No matter the brand or the company.

@KalvinCJ 🌷✦: Then, PlayStation consoles should also cease to exist in any physical form according to your logic.

#gaming #physicalmedia #playstation #techdebate #hardware #digitalfuture #ownership #indieweb #videogames #consoles #cloudgaming #reflections #preservation

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551925

#HackerNews #Sony #game #ownership #gaming #news #bold #claims

Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/02/sony-tells-courts-any-reasonable-customer-knows-digital-purchases-are-actually-licenses/

Sony really just needs to shut the fuck up now...

Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy | VGC

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-says-reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-the-digital-games-they-buy/

#Sony #PlayStation5 #Consumers #Digital #Ownership #Gaming

Imagine a company creating in-house CRM as a replacement for salesforce. Pretending that the in-house version is somehow better -- would be discarding millions of hours that were put into salesforce

Instead, it's much more productive to use salesforce as a prototype while making the next version with better #ownership terms

You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-probably-own-this-7-eleven

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511720

#HackerNews #7Eleven #Ownership #ConvenienceStore #Economics #UrbanDecay

Gamers are going to get what they deserve: higher prices.

https://videocardz.com/newz/ps5-pro-sells-out-across-major-us-retailers-after-gta-6-reveal-reseller-prices-reach-1300

They don't give a fuck about physical media. They lost the war without even noticing.

I hope that premium edition of #GTAVI is worth it on #PS5Pro.

#Videogames #Gaming #Games #PlayStation5 #PS5 #PlayStation5Pro #GrandTheftAuto #GrandTheftAuto5 #GTA #Rockstar #TakeTwo #PhysicalMedia #Ownership

evaluating #LLM carefully and voicing concerns is not hate

putting human before any system, algorithm or other construct is not hate

it is appreciation for human ingenuity, reasoning and knowledge

it is love of humanity
nothing less

after six years hype we see hard evidence
#salami is producing #slop at scale
wasting resources, eroding trust and putting #democracy, #privacy, #freedom, #ownership, #copyright ... you name it at risk (spoken diplomatically)

[P] I'm sorry, but the "You don't own anything!" argument continues to bug me. You haven't eince the seventh gen! The only exceptions were the Wii, DS, PSP, and 3DS. If a game on a closed system requires a patch to play it properly (or at all), and that patch is licensed to you? You don't own it. The only games one owns are on jailbroken consoles, DRM-free PC games, or easily-cracked fully-patched PC games. And I'll explain why.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #videogames #ownership

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Sony PlayStation no longer wants us to own video games. As I understand, they implied we are only being licensed to the games. Days ago, they emailed users the full Terms of Service or something similar, asserting Sony PlayStation policy. Ok, what's your opinion? Because I very rarely play video games. Plus, I have never owned a console.

#digitalrights #drm #tech #ownership #playstation #sony #indieweb #videogames #consumerrights #righttorepair #software #systemicissues #openweb #critique

Sony Keeps Getting Punched In The Face Over Going Disc-less In Unrelated Places

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/24/sony-keeps-getting-punched-in-the-face-over-going-disc-less-in-unrelated-places/

Bought a Kindle book last night. $9.99 for "The Hot Rock" by Donald E. Westlake. I read it years and years ago and wanted a copy. (Actually would like to get all the entire Dortmunder series eventually.)

There are FIVE pages of ads between the cover page and the start of the actual book. I knew that I wasn't really "buying" the book. I'm merely getting use of it for as long as Amazon allows. But I'm drawing the line at FIVE pages of ads at the start of the book.

I tried returning it this morning, but it "isn't eligible" for return.

Time to go to bookshop.org and get a copy, a real, physical copy, of the book for my shelf.

#books #ownership #kindle #amazon

"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."

– Corine Pelluchon

#factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

#Ownership gives a claim to economic value. #Governance gives decision-making authority. Sometimes they overlap. Sometimes they do not.
#NextEconomy
https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/why-shared-ownership-matters

Dev Kills Cloud Version Of Game On Switch, Offers Discount To Rebuy It For Switch 2

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/14/dev-kills-cloud-version-of-game-on-switch-offers-discount-to-rebuy-it-for-switch-2/

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/117087865807803450

Another reason modern internet life sucks. We rely on cloud services you have no control over as a business. First time I've noticed it with a big service though.

Like consumer streaming services: When people stopp buying MP3s they run the risk of only being able to access what the streaming services have licenses for, and you're at risk if they go bust. I have gaps in my Deezer playlists because of things disappearing. History getting lost for one reason or another.

#streaming #ownership

If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12326764-can-i-use-my-outputs-to-train-an-ai-model

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283563

#HackerNews #Claude #AI #outputs #AI #training #data #ownership #machine #learning #ethics

On renting, ownership, leverage, and why I increasingly want to own more of the things that matter. https://hackernoon.com/the-things-we-own-renting-ownership-leverage-and-more #ownership

So all you #thriller writers - what happens now when your #villians no longer need shell companies?

Trump administration finalizes #ownership reporting exemption for US firms https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-finalizes-ownership-reporting-210336732.html

#writing #amwriting #plotline #corporatestructure #moneylaundering #foreignownership

this may sound insignificant on a "grand scheme" or from populist perspective, but in practice it's actually very helpful and useful, and most importantly very grounded in reality.

especially when it comes to entertainment services and their "discounts" under certain conditions, or quiet renewals. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/andy-burnham-british-people-ripped-off-cost-of-living

#Subscription #Ownership #UnitedKingdom #UK #DigitalOwnership #Tech #Technology #Consumer #ConsumerRights #Economy #Economics

#Thai students in disbelief after deadly #school #shooting
"Student Purin Khumchoo said he felt te suspect was “a troubled kid” but appeared “very professional” when he'd aimed te gun at him.. #Thailand has one of te highest rates of #gun #ownership in te region & #pastpromises of tightening #gunlaws have not prevented repeated shootings🤦‍♂️. “I can’t believe how a child like him cld get access to a gun,” Pawarisa said. “I’m a bit worried tt other kids might also have guns”"
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-students-in-disbelief-after-deadly-school-shooting

All-new in SEP, Capitalism, by Chiara Cordelli,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capitalism/

#sep #capitalism #kapitalismi #Economics #talous #riisto #exploitation #property #ownership #omistus #socialism #sosialismi #yhteiskunta #society #work #labor #työ #political #politicalPhilosophy #economy #filosofia #philosophy #concept #hayek #marx #domination #alienation #nature #weber #keynes #polanyi #freedom

All-new in SEP, Capitalism, by Chiara Cordelli,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capitalism/

#sep #capitalism #kapitalismi #Economics #talous #riisto #exploitation #property #ownership #omistus #socialism #sosialismi #yhteiskunta #society #work #labor #työ #political #politicalPhilosophy #economy #filosofia #philosophy #concept #hayek #marx #domination #alienation #nature #weber #keynes #polanyi #freedom

All-new in SEP, Capitalism, by Chiara Cordelli,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capitalism/

#sep #capitalism #kapitalismi #Economics #talous #riisto #exploitation #property #ownership #omistus #socialism #sosialismi #yhteiskunta #society #work #labor #työ #political #politicalPhilosophy #economy #filosofia #philosophy #concept #hayek #marx #domination #alienation #nature #weber #keynes #polanyi #freedom

All-new in SEP, Capitalism, by Chiara Cordelli,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capitalism/

#sep #capitalism #kapitalismi #Economics #talous #riisto #exploitation #property #ownership #omistus #socialism #sosialismi #yhteiskunta #society #work #labor #työ #political #politicalPhilosophy #economy #filosofia #philosophy #concept #hayek #marx #domination #alienation #nature #weber #keynes #polanyi #freedom

Niloofar* emptied her #emergency backpack onto the floor: a #passport, prescribed #medications, a toothbrush, a change of #clothes, and documents proving #ownership of her home.

#Sony will cease production of #discs for new #PlayStation #games by January 2028, shifting to #digitalonly sales. This move reflects the growing consumer preference for digital media and aligns with industry trends, as seen in the decline of #physicalmedia for movies, TV, and music. While this transition may streamline the #gamingindustry and reduce costs, it raises concerns about #gamepreservation and #ownership for some #gamers. https://www.gamefile.news/p/sony-drops-playstation-discs-2028-ps3-vita-stores-closing?eicker.news #tech #media #news

How "federal policies increase debt and home size — and thereby sprawl": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-the-government-built-the-american-dream-house

#housing #taxBreaks #mortgage #wealth #realEstate #assets #ownership #property #realEstate #insurance #loans #debt #taxes #urbanSprawl #policy #homeLoans

Real ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?

The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver’s license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking is not whether they need one. The question is what the Real ID actually represents in the architecture of American civic life, and whether the reassurances offered by the Department of Homeland Security hold up under any meaningful scrutiny.

What Is Real ID, Exactly?

Congress passed the Real ID Act in 2005 as a direct response to the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government establish minimum standards for state-issued identification documents. The Act was attached as a rider to a military spending and tsunami relief appropriations bill, which meant it passed without standalone debate, without dedicated committee hearings on the identification provisions, and without meaningful input from the states that would be required to implement it. The law established that state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards would no longer be accepted for “official purposes” by federal agencies unless those cards met a new set of security and verification standards. Those official purposes include boarding commercial domestic flights, entering federal buildings such as courthouses and military installations, and accessing nuclear power plants.

The critical distinction that most people miss is this: Real ID is not a federal identification card. It is a federal standard imposed upon state-issued identification. Your Real ID is still issued by your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. It still looks like a driver’s license. It still has your state’s name on it. But it must now conform to requirements dictated by the Department of Homeland Security, and your personal data is now accessible through an interstate verification system called the State-to-State (S2S) Verification Service, administered by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. As of 2026, 45 jurisdictions participate in S2S. That is not a state database. That is a network.

Is Real ID the Same as a Passport?

No, and the gap between them is enormous. A United States passport is a sovereign identity document issued by the federal government through the Department of State. It certifies your citizenship. It is recognized internationally. It permits you to cross borders, enter foreign nations, and return to the United States. A passport is your proof of national identity in the eyes of every government on Earth that maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.

A Real ID does none of those things. It cannot be used for international travel. It cannot be used for border crossings into Canada or Mexico. It cannot be used for international sea cruise travel. It functions exclusively within the domestic sphere, and within that sphere, it serves only the narrow purposes defined by the Act: domestic air travel, federal facility access, and nuclear power plant entry. If you hold a valid United States passport or passport card, you already satisfy every requirement that Real ID addresses. The passport is, in every functional and legal sense, superior to the Real ID. The State Department’s own website confirms that both the passport book and passport card are Real ID compliant, meaning they satisfy the identification standard without requiring you to obtain a Real ID driver’s license at all.

This creates an interesting class dynamic. Americans who already hold passports, a document that requires its own application process and fee, have no operational need for a Real ID. Americans who do not hold passports and rely exclusively on their state driver’s license for identification are the ones most affected by the mandate. The burden of compliance, in other words, falls disproportionately on those who travel less, who have fewer resources, and who are least likely to have assembled the documentary chain (birth certificate, Social Security card, proof of residency) that the Real ID application demands.

Is Real ID Mandatory?

Here is where the federal government’s language becomes instructively slippery. Real ID is not mandatory in the sense that no law compels you to obtain one. You will not be arrested or fined for not having a Real ID. You can still obtain a standard, non-compliant driver’s license in every state, and that license remains valid for driving, voting, age verification, and all state-level purposes. Multiple state DMVs, including New York, California, Missouri, New Hampshire, and Ohio, explicitly state on their websites that obtaining a Real ID is voluntary.

But voluntary is doing extraordinary work in that sentence. As of May 7, 2025, the enforcement deadline that was delayed six times over twenty years, state-issued identification that is not Real ID compliant is no longer accepted at TSA airport security checkpoints. If you show up at an airport with a standard driver’s license and no passport, you are not getting on that plane through normal channels. You are, as of February 1, 2026, directed to a new system called TSA ConfirmID, where you will pay a $45 fee for a 10-day travel window, submit to biometric or biographic identity verification, and face processing delays of up to 30 minutes. That fee was originally proposed at $18 in late 2025 and was raised to $45 within weeks, with TSA officials citing higher-than-anticipated costs for the verification infrastructure.

So Real ID is voluntary the way that paying for electricity is voluntary. You are technically free not to do it, but the consequences of refusal are designed to make refusal progressively more expensive and inconvenient. The TSA’s own early data from February 2026 reports that 95 to 99 percent of travelers are now presenting Real IDs or other acceptable identification at checkpoints. The compliance rate surged after the ConfirmID fee was announced, which tells you everything about the nature of this particular “choice.”

Why Does This Matter?

The privacy and civil liberties concerns surrounding Real ID have been consistent for two decades, and they have come from across the political spectrum. The ACLU has argued since the Act’s passage that Real ID effectively creates a national identity card system by standardizing state identification under federal control and requiring machine-readable technology on every compliant card. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has warned that the interstate database network creates an irresistible target for identity thieves and facilitates government tracking of individuals. Jim Harper, a senior fellow of digital privacy and constitutional law at the American Enterprise Institute, has stated flatly that Real ID is a national ID system and that, historically, national ID systems have been tools of authoritarian control.

Twenty-one states initially passed legislation or resolutions opposing, or outright refusing to implement, the Real ID Act. Montana was among the last holdouts. The opposition was bipartisan: libertarians objected to federal overreach, privacy advocates objected to the data-sharing requirements, immigration-focused groups objected to the documentary burden, and state budget officials objected to the unfunded mandate. The federal government provided no funding for implementation. States absorbed billions in costs, and those costs were passed to residents through higher DMV fees, longer processing times, and the bureaucratic overhead of verifying birth certificates, Social Security numbers, and residential histories for every applicant.

The requirement that all Real ID cards include an unencrypted machine-readable zone is particularly troubling. That zone contains personal information that can be read by anyone with a barcode scanner. Every time the card is swiped or scanned, it leaves a digital record. The DHS insists that Real ID does not create a federal database of driver’s license information and that each state maintains its own records. That is technically true. It is also technically true that the S2S Verification Service allows states to electronically query each other’s databases, that 45 jurisdictions now participate in that network, and that the practical difference between a centralized federal database and a federated network of interlinked state databases accessible to federal agencies is a distinction without a meaningful difference to the person whose data is in the system.

The Twenty-Year Delay Tells Its Own Story

The original Real ID Act set an implementation target of 2008. Enforcement was delayed to 2009, then 2011, then 2013, then 2014, then 2017, then 2020, then 2021, then 2023, and finally to May 7, 2025, where it was further softened by a phased enforcement plan that extends to May 5, 2027. That is twenty years of delay. That is not a story about logistical complexity. That is a story about a law that the states did not want, that the public did not demand, and that the federal government lacked the political will to enforce until the question of enforcement became entangled with the security theater of post-pandemic air travel.

The fact that the TSA is now charging $45 to verify the identity of travelers who do not present a Real ID, rather than simply accepting other reasonable forms of state identification as it did for two decades, reveals the enforcement mechanism for what it is: a financial penalty dressed up as a user fee. The travelers who pay it are not security threats. They are people who did not get to the DMV in time, or who could not assemble the required documents, or who made a principled decision not to participate in a system they regard as an overreach. Charging them $45 per trip does not make air travel safer. It makes non-compliance expensive.

Where This Leaves Us

If you fly domestically and do not have a passport, you need a Real ID. That is the practical reality. If you have a valid United States passport or passport card, you do not need a Real ID for any federal purpose, and there is a reasonable argument that the passport remains the better document to hold: it is federally issued, internationally recognized, and does not feed your data into an interstate verification network administered by a nonprofit trade association of motor vehicle administrators.

The Real ID is not a federal ID card. It is something more subtle and, in many ways, more concerning: it is a federal standard that conscripts state identification systems into a national security apparatus, links them through shared databases, and imposes compliance through the denial of access to services that Americans have used freely for generations. It was passed without adequate debate, implemented without federal funding, delayed for twenty years because of legitimate and widespread opposition, and is now being enforced through a fee structure that penalizes the Americans least equipped to navigate the bureaucratic requirements of compliance.

That is not security. That is architecture. And the architecture, once built, rarely gets torn down. It only gets expanded.

Thursday, November 27, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/thursday-november-27-2025/

A quotation from The Bible

The faithful all lived together and owned everything in common; they sold their goods and possessions and shared out the proceeds among themselves according to what each one needed.
 
[πάντες δὲ οἱ πιστεύοντες ἦσαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ εἶχον ἅπαντα κοινὰ καὶ τὰ κτήματα καὶ τὰς ὑπάρξεις ἐπίπρασκον καὶ διεμέριζον αὐτὰ πᾶσιν καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν·]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Acts 2:44-45 [JB (1966)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-nt/79533/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #acts #actsoftheapostles #Christians #commune #community #faithful #money #ownership #property #sharing #togetherness

Ah yes, another brave soul trying to decode Rust's #dynamic #dispatch, armed only with a "novice" badge and a half-eaten sandwich. 🥪🔍 Just wait until they discover "ownership" and "borrowing"—RIP their sanity. 😅📚
https://alschwalm.com/blog/static/2017/03/07/exploring-dynamic-dispatch-in-rust/ #Rust #Programming #Ownership #Borrowing #Novice #HackerNews #ngated

Funny things about words.

https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-1067-a353-835f-4a5479987391

If I did this right, then I won’t have to ask the developers to change anything about their applications to deploy them to the new platform. But I hope that it will produce some organizational capital to spend on pushing #refactoring for the new platform, adopting #bestpractices, encouraging better #habits, and paying down #technicaldebt. I demonstrated #ownership of the platform I operate for them; they get to #reciprocate via the applications they own.

Bilt Rewards banks $60M growth on a $350M valuation to advance credit card benefits for renters - Bilt Rewards, a loyalty program for property renters to earn points on rent with n... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BELKpN49E1s/ #gid-windsorcommunities #avalonbaycommunities #propertytechnology #theblackstonegroup #loyaltyprogram #recentfunding #creditcards #enterprise #realestate #mastercard #wellsfargo #ankurjain #gregbates #ownership #payments #startups #landlord #funding